The dissertation solves a scientific problem, the essence of which is to build a theoretical structural-level model of external influence, which includes subjective, strategic and technological components. The definition of external influence, social transgression, social cohesion, transgression cycle, «system within borders», «boundaries» and «overstepping» («borders»), staffed societies and understaffed societies, systems-subjects, systems-participants is formulated, systems-actors, systems-mediators based on the use of conceptual and categorical apparatus of sociological theories of Marxism and neo-Marxism, Weberianism and neo-Weberianism, structural functionalism and social synergetics, sociological evolutionism, structural-activity approach, cybernetic approach (L. Bevzenko, O. Zlobina, P. Kutuev, O. Kutsenko, V. Tancher, V. Stepanenko, Y. Romanenko, I. Rushchenko, I. Kononov, V. Poltorak, A. Stadnyk, A. Ruchka, V. Podshivalkina, L. Khyzhnyak, E. Magda, G. Pocheptsov, E. Durkheim, R. Merton, T. Parsons, N. Luhmann, J. Alexander, E. Shields, M. Weber, E. Giddens, P. Shtompka, N. Smelzer, A. Toynbee, J. Habermas, W. Hennis, W. Cruze, K. Lichtbau, H. Nau, W. Schluchter, S. Amin, E. Wallerstein, J. Arrighi, P. Beran and P. Sweezy, K. Marx, F. Engels, A. Labriola, A. Gramsci, L. Althusser, P. Bourdieu, R. Darendorf, E. Hall, G. Triandis, G. Hofstede, K. Evans, K. Dion and K. Green, and others). External influence in the dissertation research is defined as one of the types of social transgression, which reflects the processes of the social system of the subject of external influence (represented by its institutions and groups) outside its social space and penetration into the space of another social system (object of external influence) through their cultural, socio-institutional, socio-group and personal components at the levels of culture / communication, politics, economics, population within the strategies of symmetric and asymmetric interaction (including communicative, asymmetric-exchange and dominantly-destructive strategies of external influence) when application of an appropriate set of technologies of external influence.
The levels of external influence (components of culture, social structure, social institutions, social groups for which certain strategies of external influence can be applied) and segments (sectors) of culture, social institutions and social groups that can become both subjects and objects have been determined. At the same time, the connection between the societies of subjects and the implementation of external influence at the levels of culture, communications and politics and societies with limited subjectivity and the implementation of external influence at the levels of the economy and population is noted.
The definition of the strategy of external influence as a program of directed actions and interactions of subjects of one society in relation to another, which provides for the construction of relations of superiority, equality or dependence, is proposed. Three types of external influence strategies have been identified that can take place in the interactions of societies with different levels of subjectivity (full and limited): communication / partnership strategies; non-equivalent (non-constructive) exchange / exploitation strategies; dominance / submission strategies (exploitation / violence). The definition of technologies of external influence is proposed and their typology (classification) is built. Technologies of external influence are defined as algorithms for implementing strategies that allow achieving three groups of results (effects) of external influence: maintaining communications, maintaining exchange and / or various modes of unilateral (unprofitable, non-constructive) use of resources and dependence / destruction of some societies by others.
